Kieran Nicholson reports: State investigators are looking into a database breach at the Colorado Department of Transportation which could lead to identity thefts. The breach of the Disadvantaged Business Enterprise program with CDOT was discovered recently and has been reported to the Colorado Bureau of Investigation, said Amy Ford, a CDOT spokeswoman. […] “A probationary…
Month: May 2016
Class-Action Suit Targeting Law Firm Privacy Protections Could Be Unsealed
Gabe Friedman reports: The privacy focused class-action law firm Edelson P.C. announced it has filed a federal class-action under seal that targets a Chicago-based regional law firm for data security holes. On Thursday morning, name partner Jay Edelson tweeted that he had filed a motion to unseal the complaint against the unnamed firm. […] In an interview with Big Law…
IL: Abingdon-Avon School Board addresses alleged data breach
Tom Loewy reports: So many people attended Wednesday’s special meeting of the Abingdon-Avon District 276 School Board it had to be moved from the superintendent’s conference room to Hedding Grade School’s cafeteria. While roughly 150 visitors were on hand for the start of the 6 p.m. meeting, just 25 stayed through the five-hour executive session…
Following massive data leak, Mexico restricts information on voter lists given to political parties
In the wake of a massive data leak involving a voter list given to Movimiento Ciudadanos, new guidelines concerning electoral lists will be going into effect. While the exact details of the new procedure have not been made totally clear yet, it appears that one of the most significant changes is that political parties will receive lists…
Romanian hacker Guccifer: I breached Clinton server, ‘it was easy’
Catherine Herridge and Pamela K. Browne report on a jail-house interview with Marcel Lehel Lazar, aka, “Guccifer,” about how he hacked then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s email server. You read their story on Fox News. If he’s telling the truth, there was nothing very sophisticated about his approach.
CA: Humboldt County Notice of Data Breach
May 2, 2016 The County of Humboldt announced today that five computer terminals used by the public in an office on the fifth floor of the county courthouse were misconfigured by a third-party software provider, potentially allowing access to limited confidential information. On April 4, 2016, the county learned that individuals accessing parcel information in…